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I found this quite interesting and entertaining. The storytelling was good and carried well over the 40 episodes. Great opening and a great conclusion. The music wasn't the best, but it was ok. The characters were quite well done from both drawing and in characterization. The animation was ok for not being current. Overall I would recommend this to those who like the sci-fi genre. It's got aliens,
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I found this quite interesting and entertaining. The storytelling was good and carried well over the 40 episodes. Great opening and a great conclusion. The music wasn't the best, but it was ok. The characters were quite well done from both drawing and in characterization. The animation was ok for not being current. Overall I would recommend this to those who like the sci-fi genre. It's got aliens, time travel, comedy, and space battles. I liked it and if you watch this, I hope you do too.

I am surprised that this is on Crunchyroll - but not unhappy. This is one of those that I would recommend since it is somewhat different than everything else currently. You just have to put up with: the corny music, fail transitions, irritating decision making by the characters, and of course the somewhat antiquated animation (though it's interesting in and of itself). Oh, also the English (is it
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I am surprised that this is on Crunchyroll - but not unhappy. This is one of those that I would recommend since it is somewhat different than everything else currently. You just have to put up with: the corny music, fail transitions, irritating decision making by the characters, and of course the somewhat antiquated animation (though it's interesting in and of itself). Oh, also the English (is it a dub?) seems to be... not always correct and/or forced.

I'm not trying to be sarcastic - I'm just letting you know ahead of time so you're not disappointed going into it. The value is in watching the whole series (and actually getting through it).

It is probably not possible to make a perfect animated adaptation of this most excellent French comic book series, unless Peter Jackson picks it up with a large budget.
But this anime series does a very good job to keep many elements we love from the comic books. Foremost the cast of alien creatures is done very well, from what I have seen so far.
The comic books audience was from young to
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It is probably not possible to make a perfect animated adaptation of this most excellent French comic book series, unless Peter Jackson picks it up with a large budget.
But this anime series does a very good job to keep many elements we love from the comic books. Foremost the cast of alien creatures is done very well, from what I have seen so far.
The comic books audience was from young to mature, while the anime series probably just targets the young audience. This explains the changes of Laureline. The comic book Laureline has had some of her finest moments, when she turns into a very beautiful, sexy lady to show male creatures are kind of stupid, compared to females, violent and controlled by hormones and uses their weaknesses to solve problems like an adult does not like these child heads.
In the anime series this is somewhat less obvious but still there, for example when she manages to let Valerian do the household chores, because he did not expect that she was able to park the flying saucer well and lost a bet.
So see this series and by all means try to get the comic books!

I really enjoyed watching this. I love the classic feel its funny, action packed, and it feels like something that came from the mind of a true inspirational genius and i thought personally time travel was explained differently and in a way that could keep you guessing. Albert certainly choose articulate times to intervene and the main characters keep you guessing they are very much so in love and
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I really enjoyed watching this. I love the classic feel its funny, action packed, and it feels like something that came from the mind of a true inspirational genius and i thought personally time travel was explained differently and in a way that could keep you guessing. Albert certainly choose articulate times to intervene and the main characters keep you guessing they are very much so in love and the galaxy can tell. But the two that it actually affects they choose not to react like they are in love. It is certainly and witty.i would certainly recommend it to anyone looking for a great series.But admittedly the music was kinda corny.It leaves me 5 star rolling. XD

OK, this is a fun little show. If I were to compare it to Japanese animated shows, I probably would have rated it lower. This is more of a Saturday morning cartoon. For what it is, I think it is pretty great. It is NOT a Japanese Anime and it will not tickle everybody.

From what I've read, it is originally French cartoon and this version has an Australian (?) English dub. The dub is terrible,
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OK, this is a fun little show. If I were to compare it to Japanese animated shows, I probably would have rated it lower. This is more of a Saturday morning cartoon. For what it is, I think it is pretty great. It is NOT a Japanese Anime and it will not tickle everybody.

From what I've read, it is originally French cartoon and this version has an Australian (?) English dub. The dub is terrible, especially at first. After a few episodes the actors get better with their characters and I got used to the cheese, so I got over it. I'm glad I did, I had fun.

The story is loosely based on a very old series of sci-fi comics (which helped to inspire Star Wars amongst others). It is a lot like an animated Buck Rogers. The characters and political intrigue are not too tedious for adults, but it is really plainly marketed to the 10-14 age range. I'm a grown man and I was quite entertained by it, and if my nephew and nieces were over (aged 5-12) I would not hesitate to play this show for all of them. There is an interesting overall story arc with time travel and political intrigue, a bit of humor, some fights and some romance but nothing is taken too seriously.

As an anime I would give 2.5 stars. As a Saturday morning cartoon, easily 4 stars. It is a fun little watch if you can make it past the bad dub in the first few episodes.

Also this is one of the only shows I've seen with a strong female lead.

This anime is based on a french scifi series which started in 1967 and just finished in 2010. This is an all time classic. The plot and storyline from each episode is well developed. The major different from this and a Japanese anime is the character development. The main characters are loveable and totally different from your standard cookie cutter japanese hero/heroine.

I keep coming back to crunchyroll to watch this because nobody else has it! I can't even buy it on amazon, it doesn't exist. I truly love this so much it's unique and fun. I love all the interesting little aliens you meet each episode. I like how Valerian is from the future and Laureline is from the past which creates great arguments on "how" things should be done.

I've seen some bad animation and this is some of it. The stories are poorly written and usually stupid and the dialog is very lame. If this is anything like the comic book stear clear of both, it is horrible. Anybody that says different is either being paid or really really stupid!! I really wanted to like this, I love anime but this stuff is garbage. Worse than the worst.